Her father was from a Jewish family, and her mother was a Southern Protestant the girls were raised as Christians. Her mother, Helen Elizabeth (Jones) Rich, was a concert pianist and a composer. Her father, pathologist Arnold Rice Rich, was the chairman of pathology at The Johns Hopkins Medical School.
Rich famously declined the National Medal of Arts to protest House Speaker Newt Gingrich's vote to end funding for the National Endowment for the Arts.Īdrienne Cecile Rich was born in Baltimore, Maryland, on May 16, 1929, the elder of two sisters.
Auden went on to write the introduction to the book. Auden for the Yale Series of Younger Poets Award. Her first collection of poetry, A Change of World, was selected by icon W. Rich criticized rigid forms of feminist identities, and valorized what she coined the "lesbian continuum", which is a female continuum of solidarity and creativity that impacts and fills women's lives. She was called "one of the most widely read and influential poets of the second half of the 20th century", and was credited with bringing "the oppression of women and lesbians to the forefront of poetic discourse". Adrienne Cecile Rich ( / ˈ æ d r i ə n/ AD-ree-ən – March 27, 2012) was an American poet, essayist and feminist.
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